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Larry Polansky List of Compositions Selected, Annotated 4/6/21 Polansky, List of Compositions 4/6/21 2021 Selected Rounds: what is music? a recombinant, self-negating round for any # of singers, speakers, players / Claudio Calmens opina… (Claudio Calmens says…) Grand conjunction canon for Amy (piano and optional second instrument) Passacaglia for louise (in Gary’s memory), piano 2020 Selected Rounds: adjectival abuse (for David Mahler’s 76th) / Bayesian Logic / wear a mask/ herpetology / white throated sparrow’s changing song / filiality (on a phrase by Barbara Monk Feldman) / routine behavior (2 rounds for amy) / rhyme, no reason (for julie hanify’s birthday) / Octochordal Injunction / Happy Holidays! / deck-a-dance (for beals’ 10th birthday) / beautiful armenian luck from fresnoid seat belts (for Charles Amirkhanian’s birthday) ) / no longer (just) HRH! (a neotitular 6-part round in celebration of Sarah Lloyd, on the occasion of her being awarded the Order of Australia Medal) / gimme shelter (3 rounds on the coronavirus and on being stuck at home, and practicing the Bach Cello Suites) / double round for George Marsh and Jennifer Wilsey, on the occasion of George’s 5417 birthday / contravirus conundrum / morning/absence (for dan) seven 2-part inventions (piano) chaconne (for amy) (piano) music for Amy and me (piano and guitar, or piano and another instrument) 2019 Selected Rounds: Octalpus / No Net! / for pete’s sake / Ucross Rounds (20) / shopping list / 1 tishri 5780 / one more song for amy, kate and Vanessa / Glockintood 2, solo glockenspiel, voice ;Mayn Rue Platz) (My Resting Place) (The Schneider Variations) for solo refretted guitar. 1994) רצפלץ מ׳׳וֹ new edition 2019 five songs for kate and vanessa I. higher II. corner cows III. to&fro/in&out IV. Courante V. jig. Violin, cello, piano. Premiered by Kate Stenberg, Vanessa Ruotolo, and Amy Beal, Center for New Music, San Francisco, 12/11/19 sulam), for trumpet and canonic and droning instruments, 12/19) (סולם) kaddish ladder canon 2018 יומ / (gematria) גימטריה (day four) ירביע ום / …Selected Rounds: beals’ lament: !8! (at 7) / not quite done yet לפיוי (day five, 2018) חמישי I-80 Rounds (9 rounds): lovelock; the lincoln highway; battle mountain; western archeological service; boomerang, rocket, minor; 93.1 The River (by Amy C Beal); afterthought (Polansky/Beal, 2 versions); magic square; end of the line another round of cohase rounds (16 rounds): el regreso del pajaro rojo; née Ascutney; reconnaissance; motherhood; two state solution; a real racket!; ;there!; viam vulpes; terra incognita ה ;climatology; alimentation; phenomenology; ándale; resolution CATs in the CoHase; What the &%$!??? Ucross Rounds (with Amy Beal) (22 rounds): drive, she said (bea); lament noir; a (mostly) peaceable kingdom; interruption (barn dance) (beal); travel advisory (for tracey kikut); @swim 3 creeks; greetings and (canine) salutations; culinary dilemma; whereabouts; pyrotechnics; wyovision; Logan Airport 5 a.m (beal); survey; ars nova; sheep may safely graze?!#*!; manifest (V.I.P version); visitation; doggerel; to'ks^aakhe' & Philámayaye; the ballad of Lucia Dlugoszewski (beal); boseman/baritone uke; boise/Judah a 5-measure valentine’s rag for amy. Piano VEDITZ, for percussionist/ASL interpreter (with film) (for Christopher Clarino) (premiered, Chris Clarino, UC San Diego, Experimental Theater, 1/16/19) 2017 v(t)pm, solo piano page 2 Polansky, List of Compositions 4/6/21 snakey snake, haegum and live computer. Premiered Soo-yeon Lyuh, haegum; LP, computer (and guitar obligato). UC Santa Cruz Pacific Rim Festival, Santa Cruz, CA, 10/17/17 eemee) (for the Early and) ימי / (Selected Rounds: vii’d’vi (birthday round for George Marsh Experimental Music Ensembles, UCSC) / trigger warning (for David Dunn’s birthday) / Lullaby for Sofia / Cohase Rounds (book of 29 rounds) sylvan bop, jazz tune (lead sheet) and piano solo version 2016 nagan) for Michael Parsons / 2G17 (for Paul Nauert) / así es / b[ / bestiary / bald top) נגן :Selected Rounds / clarification / a mode(l) of limited transposition / a lwk viiits! (birthday round for Daniel Goode) / quinceañera habanera / no corking fee! conjugation, guitar and piano viiivvi, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello; commissioned by Ensemble IPSE, premiered 3/5/17, NYC 2015 canons and rounds (for Dither), for 4 – 6 electric guitars. Premiered by Dither; The Stone, NYC, 2/7/16 8 fermentations (on a sketch by Charles Dodge), two electric guitars. #4 premiered by Giacomo Fiore, LP, MonkSpace, Los Angeles, March, 2017; complete piece premiered by James Moore, Elliot Simpson, 11/28/18, Areté, Brooklyn, NY Sweet Betsy from Pike (Interlood), two electric guitars Selected Rounds: the old 100 (+5a) / Border Crossings / q.e.d (a birthday round) / epigrammatic epithalamion (wedding round for Linnea and Noah) / User’s Manual (for RAZORCAKE) / leviathan / Lullaby for Luca / den / scarcity 2014 v’y’aal) (and he ascended), for nine pitched instruments. For Steven Miller. Premiered, Bang on a Can) וְיַעַל Summer Music Festival, Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA, 7/16/16, Greg August, conductor Selected Rounds: viiity / long playing / three rounds for three thirds / echolalia / bassoons across nebraska! (a meander) / wrmw (v’im’ru) (and enjoin) for Bob Gilmore 2013 tritune. Three pieces for two electric guitars (played without pause). Commissioned by Kobe van Cauwenberghe and Matthias Koole holding patterns for george marsh. Drummer and any other instruments Paradox. Opera. Text: Patrick Graybill’s “Paradox.” Solo ASL signer (Monique Holt), “interpreter,” electric guitar (LP), clarinet (Daniel Goode), two percussion, video (made with Douglas Repetto). Commissioned by Real Time Opera; premiered (four performances) Transformer, Cleveland, Ohio, 2013. Video version available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdSfTv3PlaY. Five minutes long steinmehrhund. Solo piano. Commissioned by the Beethoven Festival 2013 Bagatelle Project, premiered, Jiwon Choi, Chicago, Illinois, 9/14/13 catchaiku. Guitar and Percussion, commissioned by Toon Callier and Jeroen Stevens. Premiered by them, and recorded (two versions) on fritzi und heidl, BandCamp CD, 2013. American Premiere, Kyle Bruckmann and Matt Ingalls, Center for New Music, San Francisco, 9/27/14 minmaj (duet) (from 3 translations for electric guitar). Premiered by LP and Giacomo Fiore, San Francisco, 3/13 Selected Rounds: 3 x 17 / 1/16/13 / µwyh Pwsh (Ha’sof ha’yom) / alacrity / aggadic midrash / prosperity (for mike winter) / shell game / alarum / miscommunication / call and response 2012 rive; quasi-paralude x (from 3 translations for electric guitar). Rive premiered by Giacomo Fiore, San Francisco, 3/1 (number piece), for 10 instruments, part of “Cage 100 Party Pieces Project” (Leipzig). Premiered Miller Theater, NYC, 10/17/13, Either/Or Ensemble page 3 Polansky, List of Compositions 4/6/21 Three Songs for Tom and Joe. 1. “Gentle Annie” 2. 8 Lines 3. “De lah de lah”. Voice and piano. Premiered Four Seasons Arts Series, Thomas Buckner (baritone), Joseph Kubera (piano), March 2, 2014, Oakland, California 8 Lines, version for voice and 8 melody instruments. She is Full of Patience. Nine instruments (flute, alto saxophone, violin, cello, harp, guitar, piano, percussion, electronics). Commissioned by besides, dedicated to and premiered by Jutta Troch and besides, Belgium, March, 2012. Official premiere at Darmstadt Festival, July, 2012 Selected Rounds: ! /illuminations / righteous doodette / primer / detritus haikus / census / reasonable expectations / tympanocryptis 2011 performance practice for doug perkins. Piece for Twitter 9 events (quartet) for christian, doug, robert and me. Piano/melodica, percussion, bass, guitar. Premiered at The Stone, New York City, June, 2011 10 strings (9 events). Guitar and violin. Commissioned and premiered by James Moore and Andi Springer. Recorded on Gertrudes (Moore and Springer), New World Records CD, 2015 Three Pieces for Trombone and Tuba. Commissioned and premiered by Matthew Barbier Night Hunter. Score for animation by Stacey Steers. Premiered at the Denver Art Museum. Major first screenings at MOMA and Lincoln Center (NYC), and at film festivals including Telluride, Sundance, and Rotterdam Duchess Bridge. Guitar recording. On The $100 Guitar Project, Bridge Records (2013) Ensembles of Note, flute solo. (2 versions) Cinderella (duet version, added percussion part) Selected Rounds: viiii / the way down east / to do list / common things / five Ostrava rounds (halda; confession; sisterhood; clumpiness; 329) / Three Lowland Rounds / Sage Advice! / Music 206 / ornithology 2010 Perception. For three signers and piano Old Paint. Solo piano. Premiered by Rory Cowall, Pasadena, California, 2012 Silent demonstration. Any instruments 30 Rounds (MacDowell diary) (31 rounds, written at the MacDowell colony) 22 sounds. Percussion quartet String Quartet in 3 Movements (edited and engraved 2016) four doods (@ $6.25). I. monophony (two clarinets, or any two similar instruments), II. homophony (two tubas or any two bass instruments), III. polyphony (two accordions, or any two instruments that can play chords), IV. heterophony (two violins). Commissioned and premiered by Machine Project, Los Angeles, 2010 Simple song (agnosia). Piano and voice. Premiered by Yuji Takahashi, Mutsumi Hatano, Japan, 2011. hojas nuevas (seven canonic variations for piano) Selected Rounds: 4-part round for laura steenberge (2 voices, 2 basses, 1 person) / an accounting (for Sarah Lloyd) / rqwb/ hurry home / moving day / Antwerp
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    Annea Lockwood, a New Zealand–born composer who settled in the United States in 1973, distinguishes herself with works ingeniously combining recorded found and processed sounds, live-performance and visual components, and exhibiting her acute sense of timbre. Lockwood first explored electro-acoustic music and mixed media in the mid-1960s in Europe. Initially tutored by Peter Racine Fricker and Gottfried Michael Koenig, she gained inspiration from such experimental American composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Pauline Oliveros, and Ruth Anderson. While perhaps best known for her 1960s “glass concerts” featuring manifold glass-based sounds and her notorious Piano Transplants—burning, burying, and drowning obsolete pianos—she was drawn to the complex beauty of sounds found in the natural environment, which she captured on tape. Lockwood was especially fascinated with the sonorities of moving water and water’s calming and healing properties and thus started an archive of recorded river sounds. This project led to various sound installations and, most important, to her now legendary and large-scale A Sound Map of the Hudson River (1982) and A Sound Map of the Danube (2005), soundscapes tracing these rivers from their sources to their deltas.1 Lockwood also incorporated recorded sounds of mating tigers, purring cats, tree frogs, volcanoes, earthquakes, and fire in such works as Tiger Balm (1970) and World Rhythms (1975). From the 1970s, she explored improvisation and alternative performance techniques and asked her performers to use natural sound sources and instruments including rocks, stones, and conch shells in Rokke (with Eva Karczag, 1987), Nautilus (1989), A Thousand Year Dreaming (1990), Ear-Walking Woman (1996), and Jitterbug (2007), among other compositions.